Device for directing hoops on barrels



(No Model.) E. 8v B. HOLMES.

DEVICE FOR DIRETING HOOPS 0N BARRBLS. No. 512.704. I A Patented Jan. 16, 1894.

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' and properly guided and driven on to the bar- A 4certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Directing Hoops on Barrels, of which ments in machines for directing hoops on bar- .'UNITED ISTATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD HOLMES AND BRITAINy HOLMESOF BUFFALO, NEV YORK.

4DEVICE Fon DIRECTING HooPS oN BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Iatent N0. 512,704, dated January 16, 1894.

Application filed March 23, 1891- To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD HOLMES and BRITAIN HOLMES, citizens of the United States, residing in Buffalo, in the county1 of Erie and State of New York, have invented the following is a specification.

Our invention consists 1n certain improverels and will be fully and clearly hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top plan view of the device complete. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation on line c d,Fig. 1,showing the device attached to a barrel in position for operation, showing also a sectional view of a hoop in position to be guided and drawn on to abarrel. Fig. 3 is an under side view of the slideway frame. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation through the slideway frame, and sliding holding frames, on line a b, Fig. 3.

The object of our invention is to provide a convenient and rapid means for guiding hoops on barrels, or whereby they may be quickly put in position so that they maybe drawn in place on abarrel by any well known hoop driving machine. y

In the manufacture of barrels, especially of barrels where wooden hoops are used, a large number of hoops are required on each barrel and it is necessary that they may be quickly rel; the object of our invention is to do this.

In said drawings, the numeral, 1, represents the slideway frame. It is provided with four slideways, 5, on its under side. Shown in Fig. 3. In these slideways, 5, are four sliding frames, 6, see Figs. 2 and 4, adapted to slide in said ways, 5, and are each kept up in place by a bolt, 7, pivoted to the arms, 8. The bolts, 7, pass through the slots 9, see Figs. 3 and 4, a washer, 10, being interposed between the head of the bolt, 7, and the top of the slideway frame. These parts are pivoted so as to allow the sliding frames yto slide back and forth on said frame. The opposite ends .of the arms, 8, are pivoted to aplate, 11, (shown in Figs. 1 and 2,) by the bolts, l2, and the `means of the bolts, 22.

plate, 11, is either attached to or forms a piece of the sleeve, 13. This sleeve, 13, fits over a vSerial No. 386.049. (No model.)

the square holes, 16, and a round portion, ,19, adapted to fitthe round holes, 1.7. On veach of the round portions ofthe inclined vplate holding bars is a spiral spring, 20, which bears against the portion, c,-of the sliding frames, 6, atthe inner -end of the spring and against the shoulder, e, on the square portion,

y13. On each bar, 18-19, is rigidly secured a cur-ved inclined tapering guide plate, 21, by See Fig. 2. On each forward under side of the square portion, 18, is rigidly `secured in anywell known way, a pointed or other foot'andstop piece, 23. From this construction it will be seen that by moving the hand wheel, 15, the circle occupied by the tapering inclined guide plates,21, may be easily enlarged'or decreased so that the feet may be extended outward to t the inner side of the top of the barrel and the device is thus quickly secured in place on the top of a barrel to be hooped, substantially as shown in Fig. 2. It thus accommodates and adjusts itself to the form of the top of the barrel, even if it is a little out of round. It will be also vertical shaft, 14, rigidly secured to the top further seen thatthe inclined tapering guide plates presenta yielding face to the hoops, that is, they can be forced back against the force of the springs,'20, so that if any of the IOC edge of the barrel. important featurefand thus formsa sure and safe guide to the hoops as they are put on to the barrel.

In operating with this device, it is placed on the head of the barrel while the guide platesand other parts are contracted. The` hand wheel is then turned to expand it and in doing so the supporting feet and stops, 23, are forced against the inside of the staves of the barrel' and as the hand Wheel, 15, is further turned it compresses the spring 20, with such force or power as to hold the guide plates sufficiently firm to cause the hoopte assume a round shape so that it can pass over said guide `plates and on to the barrel, but the guidemtplatesiare not so iirmly held as to preventlthehoops from contracting ordepressing Jthem in case they (the'guide plates,) shonldvproject toofar overthe periphery of the barrel. Gonsequently the hoops areallowed ytopa-ss over on to the barrel Without being `overstrained. After all 4the hoops are driven on one end of abarrel, the device is contracted and removed. The barrel is now reversed and the machineiput on to the other` This construction is anA ranged in a circle so as to form a portion of a cone and secured to bars located `in slideways radiating from the center, and a series of supporting feet and stops operating on the inside of the staves of a barrel, for gaging the distance the guide plates shall project over the outer edge of the barrel, substantially as described.

2. The combination witha series of tapering inclined guide plates mounted on an expanding and contracting frame and arranged substantially in a circle thereon, ahand wheel and' its connecting mechanism for contracting and expandingfthesame, and a spring yielding `mechanism substantially as above described Whereby the` gnideplates arecapable` of being expandedtand contracted'iandatthe same time are capableofyyielding against the `forceof the spring mechanism :substantially as described.

3. In adevice forfgnidinglhoopsonbarrels, the combination of a series i of `inwardly inclined curved tapering-gnideplatesgarransged in a circle so `as toiform .ai portion of a `cone `and Ksecured to sliding ibarsflocated in ifs`li`de vways radiating from the center,` Aa-series of pointed `feet for-supportingithedeviceon the top of the barrel and holding itrsecurely in 'place thereto,` a correspondinglkseriesof :arms lpivoted` to the slidingbarsatltheir outerends, and to a plateadapted to betnrnedonra central shaft bya hand wheel for .-expandingor contracting the circle of the kseries of curved 'tapering guide plates, and: springsforwkeeping them outward, substantially as described.

ED WARD HOLMES. BRITAIN HOLMES. Witnesses:

J. M. CALDWELL, JAMES SANGSTER. 

